Water-closet



- 4 Sheets-Sheet 1. C. F. PIKE.

WATER GLOSET.

Patented May 6, 1884.

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(No Model.)

(No Model.)

4 sheets-sheet 2. C. F. PIKE.

WATER CLOSBT.

Patented May 6,1884.

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(No Model.)

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WATER LOSET.

Patented May 6, 1884.

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WATER CLOSBT.

(No Model.)

No. 298,310. Patented May 6, 1884.

WITNESSES:

CHARLES F. PIKE, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO THE NATIONAL ANTI SEVER GAS COMPANY, OF NEV Jnnsnv.

WATER-CLOSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 298,310, dated May 6, 1884.

Application filed August 3, 1881. Renewed Aprilll, 1882. (No model.)

To all who/1t it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CHARLns F. PIKE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city and county of Philadelphia, in the State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Tater-Closets, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, wherein- Figure l is alongitudinal Vertical section of my improved water-closet, showing the pan in its normal position. Fig. 2 is a like view showing the pan dumped. Fig. 3 is a plan of the receiver and operating-levers for the pan and receptaclev seals therefor. Fig. 4 is a vertical transverse section of watercloset with pan in its normal position. Figs. 5 and 6 are sections illustrating modifications of my invention, and Figs. 7 and 8 are detail perspee 2o tives.

My invention has relation to water-closets having a pan and receiver, and has for its obj ect to provide a running seal for the pan, its operating mechanism, and receiver, whereby the closet is hermetically sealed at all points against the escape of sewer-gas or odors therefrom.

My invention accordingly consists of the novel combination, construction, and arrangement of parts, as hereinafter specifically described and claimed.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, A represents the bowl of a water-closet, B the receiver thereof, and C the pan. The latter is riveted or suitably secured at c to alug, d, formed on shaft D. Said shaft has its bearings in lugs B2 B2, depending from the receiver-lid B', as shown. The joint between said lid and receiver is suitably packed to prevent 4o gases escaping therefrom. Such construction avoids the perforation of the walls of the receiver for said bearings; consequently no sewer-gas or excrementitious odors pass out of the receiver through the pan-shaft journalbearings. The pan C is formed or provided with a chamber or receptacle, E. Said parts have communication with each other by means of a tube, e, located, as shown, near the upper edges of said vessels, whereby water pass- 5o ing into either of said parts will rise to the v suitable manner; and H is the flushing-pipe same level in both, said tube also acting to hold said pan and receptacle rigidly together. b is an opening in the top or lid of the receiver, and from which depends a flange or tube, b, as shown. Said tube is of sufficient length to enter the receptacle E, and the latter is made longer or deeper than the pan C, so that when said pan is in a horizontal position the plane of the upper edge of the receptacle will be above that of the upper edge of the pan; hence any water supplied to said receptacle will pass into the pan and overflow therefrom, and not from the receptacle. Said receptacle is made of sheet-iron .galvanized to prevent corrosion; or it may be made of any other suitable material and appropriately iinished. It is secured at e to a lug, d, which is also cast or formed on shaft D, the latter also passing through said receptacle, as shown. Said lug is extended to form a crank, d?, for rotating said shaft. To said crank is attached a link, d3, which has its position within the receptacle E.

F is a rod passing through the tube b', and is connected at one end to the link d", and at its opposite end to lever G, pivoted at g to lug g', formed on the receiver-lid B', so that when said lever G is moved, as hereinafter set forth, the pan and receptacle will, through the niedium of the rod F, link d3, and crank cl2, be dumped and returned to its normal position, as hereinafter explained.

H is the water-supply pipe provided with a cock, h, secured to the receiver-lid in any for the bowl. H2 is apipebranching off from the supply-pipe, or from the cock 71 or just in advance of the flushing-pipe H', so that when the supply is cut off from the klatter said water will pass to branch pipe. The latter passes through an opening, b2, in the lid B of the receiver, and through a tube, b, formed integrally on said lid around said opening. Said tube depends down into the receptacle E, its end dipping below the line of theintercommunication of said receptacle and pan. Said branch is a pipe having a small bore, so that only a minimum head of water can pass therethrough, the result whereof is that the water flowing through said branch finds its 10o to pass through pipe H to flush and wash wardly, owing to said slot t in the lever.

.bowl is then in the sealing-water, and thereway into the receptacle, and thence through pipe c to pan, to provide for a continuouslyrunning seal for said parts.

I represents a lever pivoted at t' to a lug, i', cast on the receiver-lid, and is provided at its end t2 with an eccentric slot, t3, which receives a pin projecting from the cock-piston h3. The opposite end of said lever'is formed with a concentric slot, i4, into which enters a pin, g2, projecting from lever G.

The operation is as follows: Said parts being arranged Aas shown in Fig. l the water from the supply pipe continuously passes into branch H2, and from thence into receptacle E, rising therein until it reaches the tube e, whereupon it passes through the latter into pan Cf The lower edges of tubes b b3 and of the water-closet bowl are then below the level of said water, and are sealed thereby.

When the closet has been used and it is desired to drop the pan, the handle L is lifted to raise lever I. Ihe slot i* therein permits the lever to be raised the length of said slot before lever G begins to move. Consequently, such advanced movement of lever I causes its slot i3 to open cock h, and allows the water the sides of the bowl before the pan begins to move or drop. Consequently, any splashings of fecal matter therein are removed from the sides of the bowl and washed into the sealingwater above the pan, so that when the lever G begins to move by the continued movement of handle Lto depress rod F, and link cl3 to turn crank cl2 to oscillate the shaft D to dump receptacle and pan, all the fecal matter in the upon immediately falls into the receiver. The flushing-water still continues to run, and will do so even after the handle L is pressed down- Vhen the pan is'dumped, it is emptied of its sealing-water. The receptacle is also nearly so emptied; but when the levers are reversely moved to cause said parts to return to their normal positions and close cock h, the last portion of water passing through the flushing-pipe is sufficient to ll said pan and receptacle to seal bowl A and tubes b b3, as above described. If not, the water now passing through branch soon refills such parts to form the seal therefor, as above set forth. If desired for the better regulation of the amount of water passing through said branch, it may be furnished with a pet-cock, M, as shown in Fig. 8,where by the quantity of such water may be increased or diminished at pleasure or according as circumstances may dictate. I

shown at m, or said parts may be connected y by a flexible pipe or hose, as indicated at m; or the pan and the receptacle may be formed in one, as shown in Fig. 5; butIdeem the construction shown in Fig. ll the preferable mode,

von account of the ease and cheapness of construction, and for the further reason that all dissolved or nely-divided particles of fecal matter are held solely inthe pan, and thereby prevented from entering said receptacle to adhere to and clog the mechanism therein. Conseqently, said mechanism will at all times be entirely free of such matter, and will not therefore be liable to get out of order.

So much of the foregoing specification as relates, broadly, to running-water seals for water-closets I hereby withdraw from this application, so as to make the same a subject for a separate and subsequent application for a patent.

Vhat I claim as my invention is- 1. In a'water-closet, the combination of the following elements, viz: a receiver, a bowl, a pan therefor having an attached and an intercommunicating receptacle, which receives a flange depending from an opening in the receiver, and an operating-lever for said pan connected to said receptacle, substantially as shown and described.

2. Ihe combination, in awater-closet, of a sealing pan, mechanism for operating the same, a water-supply pipe having a cock,with i CI-IAS. F. PIKE.

Vitnesses:

Crrns. F. VAN HORN, WM. McCoMBs.

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